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Wonktonodi on 23 December 2015
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LordLichtenstein said:
Wonktonodi said:

Calling it retarded, again and again and again means nothing.

People use inflation to compare movies as well as total value. Insulting it won't change that.

 

Total ticket sales avatar is not king, nor any recent movie. Even with billions of more people in the world.

 

Maybe you didn't notice but in the American top 10. There are movies from 7 different decades on the list, showing movies that really stood out.

Compare that with the top value total and it's 4 with only 3 from before 2004, soon to be only 3 that weren't from the last 8 years. 

Or how about WW in the top 100 movies only 9 are from before 2000 and only 2 before 1993. 

Only comparing with total values and ignoring the inflation comparison as well is literally retarding yourself since you are holding back your ability to make a full comparison. So enough calling it that, thanks :)

 

If inflation should be taking into consideration, then what about the cultural differences of the decades? Inflation is a broken model for ranking the movies.


What do cultural difference between decades, or countries if you really want to go that far, have to do with dollar amounts? 

With movies there are the two comparisons, total box office and adjusted for inflation. The only one really missing that I could see being added is total tickets but the studios don't give those numbers most the time.

Comparing things monetarily over the span of years and only using the dollar amounts and not taking into account inflation, people today are making fortunes compare people back in the day, but with inflation things cost more as well. The dollar alone isn't a good unit of measure, like an inch, mile second or once. inches 80 years ago don't become miles today. Second don't become hours, but pennies turn to dollars. 

Now, you can look at movies and see why certain movies do well at various times, or what they did right to be popular, but that's discussing the reasons, not the results.